Human Rights and the Impact of Religion

This volume is about the positive, ambivalent, null and negative effects in various historical periods by various religious denominations within Christianity, Islam and Hinduism on the attitudes towards human rights of the first, second and third generation.

About the author

Johannes A. (Hans) van der Ven, PhD Nijmegen 1973, Honorary Doctor Lund 1998, is research associate for religion and human rights in the department of political philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He publishes extensively on religion and human rights in a theoretical and empirical perspective including Human Rights or Religious Rules?, Brill, Leiden 2010.

Hans-Georg Ziebertz, PhD theol. 1990 Nijmegen, PhD rer.soc Tübingen 1993, is holding the chair of Practical Theology /Religious Education at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Recently he published books on Youth in Europe, Gender in Islam and Christianity, and on Religion and Human Rights (Menschenrechte, Christentum und Islam, LIT, Münster 2010).

Product details

• Assisted by: Johannes A van der Ven (Editor), Johannes A. van der Ven (Editor), Hans-Georg Ziebertz (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2013
• EAN: 9789004251359
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25135-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Empirical Research in Religion
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law